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Kidneys control inter-organ homeostasis

Victor G Puelles¹, Tobias B Huber²

¹III. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. v.puelles@uke.de.

Nature Reviews. Nephrology

|February 15, 2022

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